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A few posts ago, I tried to list all Yi’s ways of telling stories:

• those little one-line vignettes
• allusions to the culture’s big stories – both history and myth
• the individual steps of the Sequence of Hexagrams (‘Here’s how you reach this place.’)
• the huge narrative arcs of the Sequence – ‘you are here’ on the grand scale
• multiple moving line readings that unfold one line at a time
• the ‘nuclear story’ within each hexagram
• the stories told through the connections between readings

So I’ve written about the vignettes and the mythical allusions, and now we come to individual steps through the Sequence.